president obama speaking at the event, praising mandela for changing the world. >> the world thanks you for sharing nelson mandela with us. his struggle was your struggle. his try up was your triumph. your dignity and your hope found expression in his life and your freedom, your democracy is his legacy. bill: greg palkot, streaming live in johannesburg, south africa. what impressed and what did people tell you impressed them, today? >> reporter: we were there. we can confirm it was cold, it was wet but it was also moving. it was described as the biggest -- [inaudible] tens of thousands of south africans marking the passing of -- bill: all right. our apologies to our viewers at home. that is really unfortunate. this is part of videotape that was rolling a bit earlier today when most of us were sleeping in the u.s., they were celebrating life of an ma, while he lived one heck of a life in south africa and president's words earlier today. also there was a moment that a lot of people frankly will be talking about. we'll talk about that a bit later this morning. that was a handshake that too